Everything ponderous, viscous, and solemnly clumsy, all long- winded and boring types of style are developed in profuse variety am...ong Germans--forgive me the fact that even Goethe's prose, in its mixture of stiffness and elegance, is no exception, being a reflection of the "good old time" to which it belongs, and a reflection of German taste at a time when there still was a "German taste"Ma rococo taste in moribus et artibus.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Science! true daughter of old Time thou art!Who alterest all things with thy peering eyes....Why preyest thou thus upon the poet's heart,Vulture, whose wings are dull realities?How should he love thee--or how deem thee wiseWho woulds't not leave him in his wandering,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Even while I protest the assembly-line production of our food, our songs, our language, and eventually our souls, I know that it w...as a rare home that baked good bread in the old days. Mother's cooking was with rare exceptions poor, that good unpasteurized milk touched only by flies and bits of manure crawled with bacteria, the healthy old-time life was riddled with aches, sudden death from unknown causes, and that sweet local speech I mourn was the child of illiteracy and ignorance. It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

That the public can grow accustomed to any face is proved by the increasing prevalence of Keith's ruined physiognomy on TV documen...taries and chat shows, as familiar and homely a horror as Grandpa in The Munsters.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »